Rejection at Nazareth

January 30, 2022
Pastor Stacy Dickson
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Dale Wood
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Opening Prayer

The Spirit is coming to bless us all with a new song: Let our joy be complete! Gifts for the good of all, poured out on all to teach us a new song: Love one another! Strangers and neighbors, foreigners and family will join in the new song: No longer servants but friends! Come, let our worship make a joyful noise, rejoicing in the friendship of God.

Opening Hymn — Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Chris Tomlin | John Newton | Louie Giglio
© 2006 sixsteps Music | Vamos Publishing | worshiptogether.com songs
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Scripture Reading — Luke 4:21-30 (NRSV)

21 Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” 23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.’” 24 And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown. 25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; 26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 There were also many lepersa in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.

Children’s Time with Ms. Becky

Joys and Concerns, Pastoral Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

In a cynical and despairing world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your hope. In a violent and angry world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your peace. In a dismissive and disinterested world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your compassion. In a lonely and inhospitable world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your love. In a grieving and weeping world, O God, give us a quietly prophetic voice to proclaim your joy. May we be so captivated by your hope, O God, that we cannot help but to whisper, to sing, and to enact, the message of your reign which is always coming into our world. And may our quietly prophetic lives, be channels of your restoring grace wherever we may go.

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and glory forever. Amen.

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Offertory — Mason

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (Dubois)
Afro-American Spiritual (adapt. William Farley Smith, 1986)
© The United Methodist Publishing House
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Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
© Public Domain

Offertory Prayer

Loving God, we have been blessed with so much through your goodness. As we bring our gifts in gratitude this morning, you remind us that it doesn’t matter what we have in our lives, if we do not have love, we have nothing. This love is not the love of Valentine’s Day cards, and not even the love we feel among families, which are both rich blessings. You long for us to experience agape love – the love of the world, the love for those we don’t even know. Open our eyes and our hearts. In Christ, our teacher, we pray. Amen.

Sermon — Pastor Stacy Dickson
Rejection at Nazareth

Closing Hymn — #365 Grace Greater Than Our Sin (v. 1, 2) — Garrett

Grace Greater Than Our Sin
Daniel Brink Towner | Julia Harriette Johnston
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Benediction

May we be so captivated by your hope, O God, that we cannot help but to whisper, to sing, and to enact the message of your reign which is always coming into our world. And may our quietly prophetic lives be channels of your restoring grace wherever we may go. Amen.

Postlude – Hani

Allegro assai from Drottningholmsmusiken
J.H. Roman
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